Thanks! I have a 30 gallon sump below the tank. The overflow drains through a filter sock, through carbon and phosban, past the skimmer and is returned using a 1350gph pump. After 4 foot head, the tank sees about 900gph, or about 12X per hour turnover. I have great flow, the corals love it. I'm looking at adding some baffled in the sump here shortly for a small fuge with a possible deep sand bed and some chaeto for additional nitrate export. I'm running T5's in the 10k range with actinics.
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Anyone else into Marine Aquaria, Reef Keeping?
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I've got my returns spit 4 ways, so the volume is there, but the velocity is lower than with say one or two nozzles. I keep my return lines at the surface of the water, almost parallel to the surface, so the sand does not see tremendously high velocity. It does move around a little, but my sleeper goby takes care of housecleaning down there.
MarylandMark
Charter Member
Does every thing have to be over the top with you guys?!?!?
J/K- awesome.
A dude I work with is way in to salt tanks- says it is addicting. He did a room in his basement with extra HVAC unit and some sort of rubber coating on sealing the walls because of all the moisture or some thing along those lines.
Cool stuff!
J/K- awesome.
A dude I work with is way in to salt tanks- says it is addicting. He did a room in his basement with extra HVAC unit and some sort of rubber coating on sealing the walls because of all the moisture or some thing along those lines.
Cool stuff!
Tony
Founding Member
Theres a local guy who used to have a somewhat large tank in the lobby of his glass shop. mostly corals, and reef plants. After seeing his I instantly wanted one, after talking to him about the amount of time it ate up along with expense of having the stuff shipped here and how it kept dying I quickly lost interest.
Wardey
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38fountainSC
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I have a 48 gal. reef with compact flourscents. Bought it used with all the fish and moved the water with the tank. Got to skip the cycling process. Added some coral through a local club with frags. Guy sold us the coral for $10 a frag. I meet a guy this summer at the marina with a 200,175 and a 90 with a central system in the basement. He said he would give me coral clipping but my tanks full already. So chris if you want back in I can hook you up with some corals. We've been lucky uses cheap hang on the back protein skimmer, heaters in the tank very basic its been up about 3 years now.
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Ratickle
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I'll post some pics, our headboard is a custom built salt tank. I stay away from reefs because of the upkeep. Much easier with just the fish. Have mostly the dwarf angels etc. One of our Damsels is at least 15 years old. Have two salt and one fresh total.
I keep my tank at 78. In the summer, I coincidentally keep the AC @ 78, so that's where the tank stays exactly. In the winter, I have the heater keeping it steady. With my lights, I don't have any heat to worry about...now, if you're running metal halides, that's a different story.
Boss252
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I have 2 250 watt Mh and 4 4' T5 and my temp stays at 76-78 in the summer without a chiller. I have my sump and filtration in the basement and I have Fans in the canopy and over the sump to keep it cool. i turn the sump fan off in the winter to keep the temp in that range. moving the sump and pumps to the basement is the best thing I have ever done. No noise from the pumps and cooler temps and no mess on the carpet.
38fountainSC
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